Chapter 12

• Zara’s POV
• The classroom buzzed with the usual chaos. Magic sparks crackled as someone lost control of their rune practice across the room. A dragon shifter boy near the window let smoke curl lazily from his nose, earning a glare from the instructor who hadn’t even looked up from his book in over twenty minutes.
• “Did you hear about the fight behind the dining hall? I swear, if one more dragon shifter burns the herb garden, the headmistress is going to lose it.”